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Your Energy Needs (BMR)

What is energy, and where do we get the energy our bodies need? In this activity, students calculate basal metabolic rate to understand how many Calories they must consume each day to survive.

Can Nutrients in Water Cause Harm?

It is natural for students to believe that all nutrients are helpful. For example, we often hear about the benefits of taking multivitamins, or fertilizing plants and lawns. Can nutrients also be harmful? In this investigation, students explore how nutrients can affect the health of a pond.

About Air (composition)

Which gas makes up most of the air we breathe? Oxygen? Carbon dioxide? Nitrogen? Students make a model to learn what's in the mixture we call air.

Meet Your Brain

Where is your body's “mission control center?” How does your brain communicate with your body? Do different parts of the brain have specialized functions? Learn the answers to these and other questions in this video with Dr. David Eagleman.

Gene You

Science teaching resources that introduce middle and high school students to exciting advances in genetics and genomics.

The Learning Brain

Neuroscience lessons, teacher guides, expert presentations and student reading materials for a range of grades.

Designing Your Investigation

Students learn about professional scientific procedures that must be followed when conducting open-ended experiments in the classroom.

K-8 students become “disease detectives” when they use these resources in class or after school.

Nature News

Courses and Professional Development

BioEd Online is your source for free, interactive courses on a wide range of key topics, including genetics/genomics, environmental health and the fascinating science of water. Materials are sorted by topic, making it easy to locate the content most appropriate for you.